Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Because my website has been down, I wasn't able to post this earlier, but even a week and a half later, it's still worth noting (and celebrating):

from Free Battered Women:

It is with great joy that we announce that another domestic violence survivor has been released on parole from state prison!

Many of you know Margaret Moore who has been a leader at the California Institution of Women within Convicted Women Against Abuse.

CALL TO ACTION

Protest Rally: Marcia Powell's death, AZ Department of Corrections

Friday December 18th, 2009
NOON

AZ Department of Corrections
1601 West Jefferson St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007

from Free Battered Women:

*Freedom for Joan Starr*

It is with great joy that we announce that another domestic violence survivors has been released on parole from state prison!

Joan Starr was released last week after serving 19 years of a 7 years-to-life sentence. This was the 1st time that 79-year-old Joan was found suitable for parole.

Ms. Starr's freedom is the result of the hard work of many people who have supported her over the years.

If you missed the Dec 5th zine reading at Bluestockings Bookstore with Alison Piepmeier, Jenna Freedman, Ayun Halliday and Lauren Jade Martin, you can at least see a picture of all of us here

Saturday, December 5th @ 7PM
Reading: Alison Piepmeier "Girl Zines"
With Victoria Law, Jenna Freedman, and Lauren Jade Martin

A Message from the Sex Worker’s Outreach Project - Tucson

Please forward this message

The news team for Telemundo 52 recently reported on Alma Minerva Chacon, a women who was terrorized by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Unfortunately, she is just the latest in a long line of Latinos who have suffered at the hands of the ruthless Sheriff whose personal goal is to rid Arizona of all "illegals" and just maybe, all Latinos. Arpaio has repeatedly stated that he is breaking no laws and just enforcing the constitution by arresting more than 600 Latinos a year.

Officials investigate complaints at women's prison
By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer

On August 24, 1974, Joan Little, a twenty-one-year-old black woman and the only female prisoner in North Carolina’s Beaufort County Jail, killed Clarence Alligood, a sixty-two-year-old white male guard. Alligood had entered her cell, threatened her with an ice pick and forced her to perform oral sex. She fled after stabbing him, but turned herself in eight days later.

Little was charged with first-degree murder which, in North Carolina, carried a mandatory death sentence.

The following information and video is from Diana Kasdan, Staff Attorney, Reproductive Freedom Project American Civil Liberties Union about information about a lawsuit the ACLU filed today on behalf of Bethany Cajúne, a young mother who was denied medically necessary treatment when she was about 4 months pregnant and sentenced to a local detention facility for traffic violations. In particular, this case challenges the jail's unconstitutional denial of her prescription medication to treat opioid dependency--which caused abrupt withdrawal, seriously jeopardizing Ms.

Resistance Through Writing: An Interview with Victoria Law